NSDAP

Abbreviation for Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, German political party that represented a German version of fascism. The NSDAP was derived from the Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, which was founded in 1919 by nationalists to Munich. Of this party was Hitler Member; He was soon the power in her hands and renamed in 1921 to the NSDAP. In 1922, the SA Sturmabteilung, the ' established ', in fact of commando groups in brown shirt and uniformed party members. In the putsch of november 1923 Hitler and his associates sought to overthrow the Bavarian Government, which failed: Hitler got vestingstrafen the NSDAP was banned. His punishment worked Hitler to his ' Mein Kampf ' uitzittend, that the nazi writings par excellence. Hitler the Nazi party founded in 1925, and in the same year, from the SA, Hitler formed a bodyguard of the ' Schutzstaffel ' (SS), who became a great grip on party and State would get. In 1926 the NSDAP received a youth movement, the ' Hitler Youth ' for boys and the ' Bund Deutscher Madel ' for girls. Until 1929, the NSDAP in elections to the Reichstag typically a dozen seats, but the economic crisis that began in 1929, did many, especially from the bankrupt self-employed, on the nazi party votes. In september 1930 the NSDAP 18.3% of the votes and got 107 seats, in July 1932 37.4% (230 seats) and slightly less in the elections of november 1932:33.1% and 196 seats. In any case, the NSDAP had already become the largest German party, they are not the majority. It was therefore entirely according to the rules of the political game that Hitler came to power. On January 30, 1933, he was appointed Chancellor by president Hindenburg to State. The Reichstag was dissolved on 1 February and new elections were held on March 5, 1933, with the SA and the NSDAP voters intimidated 43.9% of the votes (288 seats). Along with the far-right ' Kampffront Schwarz-Weiss-Rot ' they had the majority in the Rijskdag. In it was already on 24 March passed a law that eliminated the National Assembly paved the way for the dictatorship of Hitler. The Communist and Social-Democratic Party were banned, the NSDAP was the ' only wearer of the political will of the German people. " In the so-called Rohm-putsch (June 30 1934) killed the SS 85 leading figures, many of them Nazis who wanted to sail a different course than Hitler stood for. Through equalization penetrated the party, which in Munich remained composed, very social life along the way. One was deemed to be a member of one or more ' affiliated societies and National-Socialist organisations ' work and stands, such as the ' Deutsche Arbeitsfront ', the ' NS-NS-Lehrerbund ' and the ' Deutscher Arztebund '. Special honor gold their party membership books that have a low number (under 100,000) and had so long been were members; the party counted in 1930 400,000 members and in the annual national party conferences held in september 1932 1,000,000 in Nuremberg were massive manifestations, where important announcements were made. The last National Party Congress took place in 1938. In the war, especially when the military opportunities to the detriment of Germany were reversed, the influence of the party and its organs, in particular the SS, on the population. At the ' Reichstag ' decision of 26 april 1942 the last restrictions of Hitler's powers were raised. After the German surrender in 1945 the NSDAP and all related organizations by the Allied occupiers disbanded.